Naming shots for VFX (using tokens)

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Hello,

I’ve searched everywhere but cannot seem to find the answer to this question. I am attempting to name shots in my timeline using a VFX naming workflow (ex. 001_010), but I can’t seem to figure out how to reset the shot ID# when the scene# iterates. Example:

show_episode_065_010
show_episode_065_020
show_episode_066_010 <— I would like this to go back to 010 instead of 030

Is this possible to do in Flame using tokens / python script?

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Doing it in one go for the sequence… maybe just with python. Using the rename shot tool, I think you need to run it on the selected segments every time you want the index to reset. Not in front of Flame now.

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Index reset syntax is like this index###@10 to start back at 010. I think… this is all from memory.

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The token is called Custom Index.

<index###@10+10>

ie, pad by 3, start at 10, increment by 10.

But ya, like milanesa said, manually you would have to do select all of an episode, do 065_<index###@10+10>, then select next episode shots and do 066_<index###@10+10>, and so on. I can’t think of anything more clever.

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you can automate the episode index by adding a track underneath the shots, cutting segments gaps, renaming them as episodes and using the “Background Name” as you episode token in the shot naming.
Other than that… python.

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Thank you all for the suggestions!
@milanesa that’s the exact workflow I used in order to keep the shot ID#'s grouped together as there were multiple segments within one shot; I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought of this! I’ll definitely look into Python as that seems like the solution.